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Originally Posted by Nostradamus
Hinduism and its off-shoots are often among the best religions the world has to offer.
One of the main reasons for this is the simple fact that unlike almost all other religions, they are compleatly open to improvement and re-calculations based on older ideas. Which is the same as science, the wise know they can never be perfect. Which is why, while I highly reguard the buddhist belief's, I am living in this world not as a product of what I am told to believe, rather in relation to what I experience and understand on terms of my own life.
Everyone's journey is different... And very few philosophys are ever ultimate truths with no margin of error. So I wouldnt associate myself with one school of thought when I can instead read into everything and gain a far broader perspective.....
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are you under the impression that buddhism came from hinduism? because it definitely did not. that's actually the other way around.
as for 'philosiphies' you're right, very few contain absolute truths. But dont' confuse this for an absence of aboslute truth.
if you se someone furious, or..say..crying in a heap on the ground, in both cases it's safe to say tht "there is suffering" meaning "unhappiness". That would be a fact, there definitely is unhappiness. Then you go to the next noble truth, there is a source of unhappiness, which is also a fact, since something caused this unhappiness you see or are experiencing - attachment to desire. There is a path to the cessitation of suffering which is the release of desire - another truth. when you don't desire something, you can not be unhappy by a lack of it. and finally there is a cessitation to suffering meaning the suffering has ended - once realized this also becomes another absolute truth.
the basic breakdown of the 4 noble truths.
your perspective cant' possibly get any wider than through zen or 'becoming one with the universe'. the path to enlightenment is the shedding of the narrow perspective in the first place.